mm: avoid false sharing of mm_counter

Considering the nature of per mm stats, it's the shared object among
threads and can be a cache-miss point in the page fault path.

This patch adds per-thread cache for mm_counter.  RSS value will be
counted into a struct in task_struct and synchronized with mm's one at
events.

Now, in this patch, the event is the number of calls to handle_mm_fault.
Per-thread value is added to mm at each 64 calls.

 rough estimation with small benchmark on parallel thread (2threads) shows
 [before]
     4.5 cache-miss/faults
 [after]
     4.0 cache-miss/faults
 Anyway, the most contended object is mmap_sem if the number of threads grows.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index cbeafa49a53b..46c6f8d5dc06 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1220,7 +1220,9 @@ struct task_struct {
         struct plist_node pushable_tasks;
 
         struct mm_struct *mm, *active_mm;
-
+#if defined(SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING)
+        struct task_rss_stat    rss_stat;
+#endif
 /* task state */
         int exit_state;
         int exit_code, exit_signal;